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This week's big news in Japan includes an announcement of another new RPG from Enix and Pingu, everyone's favorite claymation penguin, both of which are coming to the PlayStation.

Enix Announces Valkyrie Profile Weekly Famitsu reported recently that Enix and Tri-Ace (Star Ocean: Second Story) will be joining forces again, having made plans to bring a new RPG titled, Valkyrie Profile, to PlayStation.

Valkyrie Profile's story is based on a Scandinavian myth in which you must take the role of the Queen of War, Valkyrie, and rescue damaged spirits from a cursed land. You'll encounter thousands of spirits and once you've chosen some, they will fight with you and grow in skill and experience.

The game is said to have a unique battle engine that will feature no command menu, but each party will be represented by one of the four the controller buttons. The game also features some highly rendered backgrounds that create a great sense of depth as well.

Valkyrie Profile will be dual shock compatible and is scheduled to be released in Japan this winter. No US release date has been announced.

source: Weekly Famitsu

Pingu Must Be Fun! Pingu B.V. has just signed a deal with Sony and will bring its popular claymation character, Pingu to PlayStation.

Fun! fun! Pingu puts gamers in the south pole and enables them to take the role of Pingu, the coolest penguin around. The title will feature a loads of mini games and five interactive stories exclusively written for the PlayStation version.

Pingu is an adventure game developed by Caps and will be released in Japan later this fall 1999.